P-dub's Sweet Cinnamon Scones

I made these scones for the morning after Em's bachelorette party. Cinnamon chips were incredibly difficult for me to find, I was only able to track a bag down after calling several grocery stores and one of them happened to have only one bag not even out in aisle, but in their back inventory.

The scones were delicious, however when I was making them, 3/4c of heavy cream was not nearly enough for me to make the dough stick together to form and cut them. I realized this after I put the crumb topping on and the dough was so dry I couldn't even cut the invidual scones out, so I put it all back in my mixing bowl, eyeballed more cream into the mix until it had the correct consistency. I ended up without the crumbly mixture on top, but I think it was a sweet surprise as you bit into each scone and got pockets of cinnamon sugar mix :)

And just for fun, a few photos from the night, it was an 80s themed party. I can't believe I'm putting this out on the interwebs!

Sweet Cinnamon Scones

by Pioneer Woman

• 3 cups All-purpose Flour
• ⅓ cups Sugar
• 5 teaspoons Baking Powder
• ½ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
• 2 sticks (1 Cup) Unsalted Butter
• ¾ cups Heavy Cream
• 1 whole Egg
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup Cinnamon Chips
• Topping
• ½ cups Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
• 1-½ teaspoon Heavy Cream

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, mix together flour, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and baking powder. Cut butter into pieces, then cut into dry ingredients with a pastry cutter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in cinnamon chips.
Mix together cream, egg, and vanilla extract. Pour into flour/butter mixture, stirring gently with a fork to combine.

Turn onto work surface (mixture will be very crumbly and falling apart.) Gently press together on the sides as you flatten (or roll, with a rolling pin) the top. Form either into a large circle or a large rectangle. Mix together topping ingredients, stirring with a fork. Sprinkle over the top of the dough, lightly pressing.

Cut into wedges (from a circle) or triangles (from a rectangle.) Transfer to a cookie sheet and bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Allow to cool completely. Serve with coffee.